English Questions: Fill in the Blanks Set – 57

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1. Hence, the signals from the December event were a lot weaker compared with the first one (which was like a short-duration burst), and distributed over a longer________ of time, thus getting buried in noise.
   1) Concentrate
   2) concentrate
   3) compress
   4) astute
   5) stretch
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 5)
   Explanation : stretch
   
   
2. One bone of contention has been cattle trade In India, the number of cows is three times more than what is_______ to produce the volume of milk consumed nationally, and eating beef is a religious________ in many places.
   1)  against, revise
   2)  abided, fragile
   3)  filled, pride
   4)  needed, stigma
   5)  complete, credit
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : needed, stigma
   
   
3. Scientists were able to tease out the signal thanks to the seminal work of Indian scientists in adapting a special technique for gravitational wave data analysis and theoretical________ of the expected signals.
   1) capturing
   2) averting
   3) snapshot
   4) modeling
   5) transparency
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : modeling
   
   
4. India lodged an appeal against the________ to allow Australia to re-take the second shootout, on which no________ was scored.
   1) moral, schlepp
   2) dearth, siphon
   3) deferment, tote
   4) deferral, traject
   5) decision, goal
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 5)
   Explanation : decision, goal
   
   
5. The effect of non____________was the repayment of the allegedly “unwarranted profits” the hospitals had made.
   1) partiality
   2) compliance
   3) unfairness
   4) Action
   5) fined
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : compliance
   
   
6. Oltmans _________ his team for putting up a fine show after making their first appearance in the final of the showpiece _________ in the annual calendar.
   1) praised, event
   2)argued, function
   3) criticism, cause
   4) censured , source
   5) condemnation, resource
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation : praised, event
   
   
7. India settled for a silver medal in its best ever Champions Trophy ________ after the spirited side went down 1-3 to world champions Australia in a summit clash________ shootout in London on Friday.
   1) shut, forgiveness
   2) perception, reward
   3) instruction, pardon
   4) performance, penalty
   5) close, award
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : performance, penalty
   
   
8. In the most recent incident, the BSF killed two more Bangladeshi nationals on Charaldanga_______ in Chapainawabganj on June 20 for________ smuggling illegal goods.
    1) Original, occasionally
   2) newfangled, generally
   3) frontier, allegedly
   4)  modernistic, allowing
   5)  modish, necessarily
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation : frontier, allegedly
   
   
9. As a result of their lighter masses, the signal from the last 27 orbits of the black holes before they merged lasted more than one second in LIGO’s _________ band.
   1) affluent
   2) infrequency
   3) uncommonness
   4) irregularity
   5) frequency
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 5)
   Explanation : frequency
   
   
10. The U.K. is not just another “country” where___________ blindly follow the centre’s diktats. It is a confederation of four nations with competing histories and where regional sensibilities are of great significance.
    1) provinces
    2) sympathy
    3) suggestion
    4) memorandum
    5) affection
    

    Answer & Explanation

    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : provinces